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considerable. This we consider as an additional advantage ; as what- 

 ever experiments were made, the transplanted trees would thereby be 

 put to a severe trial. 



About the mansion house there is not much timber of ancient stand- 

 ing. The entire number of old trees may not exceed between sixty and 

 seventy, but they are happily dispersed over the surface. To these have 

 been added by the owner a vast number of single and scattered trees, to 

 the amount, as we were informed, of between six and seven hundred ; 

 which, with various enclosed clumps, or masses of different sorts, all 

 transplanted, give to the whole a rich and woody appearance. But 

 from the style in which the removed are mixed and massed up with 

 the older trees, the effect produced is extremely striking, especially 

 when viewed from any commanding eminence. 



In the park there is also a piece of water of considerable extent, and 

 of very various outline, which shows the transplanted woods to great 

 advantage. The grounds were originally laid out by Mr White, the 

 well-known landscape gardener ; but Sir Henry seems largely to have 

 superadded his own improvements, and in the management of both the 

 woods and the water to have profited by the principles of Mr Price. 



In following out the instructions of the Society, to investigate the 

 improvements made in the art of transplanting at this place, the object 

 of our inquiry naturally divides itself into three parts : first, to examine 

 the single and scattered trees, and such as stand in detached groups on 

 the open lawn ; secondly, such as form enclosed clumps, or masses of 

 some magnitude ; and thirdly, to discover how far the art is applicable 

 to general purposes of utility or ornament. 



First, As to single trees, and groups on the open lawn. Of this 

 description, in every part of the place, we found the Oak, Ash, Witch 

 or Scotch Elm, Beech, Sycamore, Lime, Horse-chestnut, Larch, and 

 Scotch Fir ; all of which, having been at one time or other the subjects 

 of transplantation, as we ascertained by accurate examination, are 

 growing with extraordinary vigour and luxuriance, and shooting from 

 six to eighteen inches yearly, in the openest exposures. Some Sycamores, 

 Limes, and Oaks, we particularly noticed, of which the shoots might 

 measure more than two and a half feet, in similar exposures. This we 

 consider as probably unexampled in any part of the kingdom. 



These single trees are of various sizes. Those transplanted some 

 years since are from thirty to forty feet high, or more ; the girth of 

 the largest being from five feet three, to five feet eight inches, at a foot 

 and a half from the ground. Sir Henry acquainted us, that " he was 

 by no means ambitious to remove the largest possible trees, but to attain 

 greatest possible success in those which he did remove. In respect to 



